Volume 18 Issue 6 Walk With Wildlife Calling Flatland Fly...
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Casting Clinic Page 2
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Fly Fishing and Cameras Page 3 & 4
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Blue Gill Fest
Fly Fishing Fair Page 4
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From The President Page 5
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What’s Cooking
Youth Clinic Page 6
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Flint Oak Resort Page 7
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June Meeting
Club Information Page 8
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Next Meeting June 6, 2013 7:00 P.M.
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
June 2013
Volume 18 Issue 6
Wichita, Kansas
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Walk With Wildlife
Calling Flatland Fly Fishers Club
members because volunteers are needed
to help with the “Walk With Wildlife”
outreach program that Flatland Fly Fish-
ers help sponsor. “Walk With Wildlife”
will take place at Great Plains Nature
Center & Chisholm Creek Park on Satur-
day, June 8, 2013 from 9:00 AM till 3:00
PM. A Kids Fishing Clinic, sponsored
by Kansas Department of Wildlife and
Parks, Flatland Fly Fishers, and The
Wichita Eagle will be offered for kids 12
and under.
KDWP needs volunteers to help run the
Kids Fishing Clinic. You may volunteer
for the morning (8:00 AM - 12:00 PM) or
the afternoon (12:00 PM - 4:00 PM)
group. Each fishing session will have 50
kids and last 30 minutes. Please bring pli-
ers, clippers, hat, sunglasses, and water.
July Meeting
Date Changed
With the first Thursday in July
being Independence Day the club
meeting has been moved
to July 11th.
Volunteers' responsibilities include;
Baiting hooks and releasing fish
Taking photos of each kid with their fish
Having fun with kids catching fish
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CLUB CASTING ACTIVITY
Saturday, June 1st 8:00 AM TO 12:00 PM
GARVEY PARK AT THE RIVER
(Intersection of Washington St and Galena where they both
dead end)
Instructors will be FFF certified instructor Doug Meyer and
club vice president Eric Schmidt
PROGRAM OUTLINE 8:00 TO 10:00 (ON THE GRASS)
Basic Casting (with one on one training)
Specific Techniques of Interest: (Examples: shooting line;
Single hauling; double hauling; casting into the wind;
etc. 10:00 TO 10:30 BREAK (Light Snack and cold drinks provided)
10:30 TO 12:00 (CASTING ONTO THE WATER)
Roll Casting
Mending Techniques
Dry Fly Presentation
Nymphing
Spey
Other
Come to work on basic casting
Come to learn and/or practice special casting techniques
Come to learn/practice fishing techniques in moving water
Come to exchange ideas and enjoy the camaraderie
Bring equipment and flies
Bring waders or boots for casting on the water
Bring lawn chair (there are some tables)
Billed cap or hat with brim and glasses required for safety
Directions: From Kellogg and 135 interchange go South on
135 to the Hydraulic exit. Turn right onto Hydraulic, go a
block north to Fortuna St and turn left. Go one block to Victo-
ria and turn left. Go one block to Galena St & turn right. Fol-
low Galena four blocks to Garvey Park on the left.
Flatland Fly Fishers
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I was asked to write an article about Digital cameras both
DSLRS and the point and click cameras. He also asked if I
could include a short review of the Nikon D7000 and the
lenses that I bought. Sorry Canon fans I am not able to review
any of the cameras that Canon makes. Now some of you are
curious about how do cameras and fly fishing go together.
How many times are we out fishing and we catch a really nice
fish and wished that you could have a picture of it to show off
to family and friends of your prize fish (since most of us fol-
low the catch and release principle). This way the BIG fish
that you caught can be really proven instead of people wonder-
ing if it’s nothing but a long tale. If we do not have time to go
fishing, we have time to go outside and spend time with family
and we can take pictures of the time we are outside but cannot
fish.
I personally became interested in photography in the
early days of digital photography, where a 2 to 3 megapixel
camera was considered a nice camera and state of the art in
digital photography. I owned an Olympus 2000 and really
liked the camera. The camera took nice pictures but, it was
very limited. About 3 years ago, I purchased my first DSLR
(Digital Single Lens Reflex camera) the Nikon D60 and pro-
ceeded to buy a couple of kit lenses, thinking that is all that I
would need (like fly fishing we only really need 1 fly rod) to
take nice pictures either when I am fishing or don’t have the
time to fish and still want to be outside. After a period of time
my wife Tracy bought me the Pentax WG-2 Waterproof/
Shockproof point & click camera for when I am fishing. We
were concerned of me dumping the DSLR in a stream, lake or
pond. I have used it some and it takes nice pictures but DLSR
cameras I have noticed, the colors are deeper, more detailed
and you have greater control of how you want the picture to
come out right from the camera compared to point and click
cameras. Around Christmas of this year I upgraded my Nikon
D60 to a D7000 and added the Nikon 18-300 Super Telephoto
lens & the Nikon 105mm Micro lens (I still have the D60 as a
backup).
Point and Click Cameras
The point and click cameras are great to stuff in your
pocket, in your waders or to clip them on the side of the pack
and they are great because they hardly weigh anything. The
downside of the point and click cameras is that you have less
control on the control and creativity of the picture compared to
the options that you have with a DSLR. The downside of
DSLR’s is the weight and it makes it tough if you are trying
not to carry or pack a lot of weight. This is where I believe that
most people would prefer the point and click camera. But there
are some of us that would rather carry the extra weight and
have the flexibility and better pictures of what the DSLR’s
offers. If you decide to go with a point and click camera, I
would suggest buying one of the waterproof, freeze resistant
cameras that are out there. Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Fuji and
Pentax all make point and click cameras that are waterproof,
freeze proof and crushproof that will fit perfectly in a pocket
or waders.
Fly Fishing and Cameras Dan Stark
Nikon D7000 Camera
When I was looking at cameras, I had narrowed my choices
down to the D7000 (a 1.5 frame sensor camera) and the D800
(Full frame camera). I chose the D7000 over the D800 after
researching and reading a lot of reviews from magazines, web-
sites and blogs from people that either owned the cameras or
reviewed and gave their impressions and feedback about them.
I chose the D7000 over the D800 because of the following
reasons: 1) a lot of the reviews preferred the D7000 over any
of the entire 1.5 sensor DSLRs and even was rated higher than
a lot of the full frame Nikon DSLRs including the D800; 2)
the price of the 2 cameras, The D7000 cost me online for
$1000 where the D800 at the time was about $3000 just for the
body and no lenses. So for the price of D800, I was able to buy
the D7000, the Nikon 18-300 Telephoto zoom and the Nikon
105MM Micro Lenses. (continued on page 4)
The D7000 has so many settings and options that to
explain everything about the camera is impossible since I do
not have the space in the article (it would take a book) that
you can do with the camera, but I will try to give advice on
the major points that I like about the D7000. The first thing
that I noticed was the Dual SD slots that the camera has and
you can choose to have the second card make a copy of the
picture at the same time it writes to the first card or after the
first card is full then the camera will write to the second card.
The ISO Sensitivity settings on the D7000 can go up to an
ISO 25600. I personally have only taken the ISO up to an
ISO of 3200 and the pictures came out really clean and not
grainy at all. My brother in law that has a D7000 and a Nikon
D600 Full frame (he likes the D7000 over the D600) has told
me has gone up to an ISO level of 6400 and most of the pic-
tures he stated have not come out grainy and looks very good.
Nikon also has added on the exposure mode dial a U1 and U2
setting that you can save the setting that you are shooting so
you can save it to shoot at another time. The D7000 has capa-
bilities to record video, I have not tried it but everything that I
have read that any of the DSLRS (including Canon, Sony,
Pentax and Fuji) that can play video the quality is not that
good. So I would not buy a DSLR to take video, I would buy
a video camera for those purposes. You can have 3 auto fo-
cus modes of AF-C (Continuous-servo autofocus), AF-S
(single-servo Autofocus) and AF-A (Automatic autofocus).
After you choose the mode the user can choose up to 39 auto
focus points or you can choose single point 9, 11, 21, 3D and
Auto area auto focus. There are four settings in the white bal-
ance where you can adjust the color and capture the scene to
where you can save and retrieve the white balance anytime
that you want to use that scene. The D7000 is a 16.4 mega-
pixel camera; the new D7100 has 24 megapixels and I be-
lieve 54 plus auto focus points. What I found out that on
DSLR’s the megapixel count is not that important as the
some of the other features like the quality of the sensor that
the camera manufacturer uses and the ISO sensitivity num-
ber.
Danny will cover camera lenses in
July Newsletter
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Blue Gill Fest
The Blue Gill Fest will be June 22nd at a lake located at 6711
West 53rd North. The lake is east of Ridge Road on the south
side of 53rd. Look for the Flatland Fly Fishers Club Banner.
The lake has plenty of blue gill and bass. Bring your kick
boat, float tube, kayak, canoe or small boat with trolling mo-
tor. However, no gasoline engines are allowed on the
lake. Those who do not have a floatation device there is plen-
ty of bank fishing.
A 3 to 5 wt rod is suggested but any rod will work. Trout
flies like a Prince, Crackleback, Buggers, San Juan Worm all
work well, but do not forget about your blue gill and bass
flies. This lake water can be clear so bring some split shot to
get deeper if needed.
The fishing will be from around 7 am till early afternoon. The
lunch menu will be hamburgers, hot dogs and chips. You
need to bring your own beverage.
Southern Council
Fly Fishing Fair
October 3-5
Mountain Home AR
The club is putting together a trip to Mountain Home, Ar-
kansas and the White River system on October 3rd to 5th to
fish and attend the Southern Council Fly Fishing Fair.
For more details on the Fly Fishing Fair visit the Southern
Council web site: www.southerncouncilfff.org.
click on “Fly Fishing Fair”
For more information on travel, lodging or any other con-
cerns talk with Rick Brown.
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Got Carp
How did it get to be June already! Where are the Carp?
It looks like we are going to be on the go this month. First ,
on the 1st we have the casting clinic, then on June the 8th we
will be at the Great Plains Nature Center Inland pond helping
with the Walk for Wildlife kids fishing program. Remember
that Wild Life and Parks, Jessica and The Great Plains Nature
Center provide us with a free place for our monthly meetings
and our Winter Program and a lot of other support for the club
and this is one way we can give them the same support they
give us. Finding the time to volunteer for an event is hard to
do. If you only volunteer for one event a year the Walk for
Wildlife would be the one to volunteer for.
These events should be on your calendar. But if your cal-
endar looks like mine it’s hard to find the time to do all of the
stuff that you need/want to get done. The last few months I
have spent more time at some doctor office than at work. I
have added two more doctors to my list. I am now supporting
about seven doctor’s. So if you see me just looking off into
space don’t worry it’s just my med’s kicking in. I know that
you have other things going on in your life also. Family and
work are important, and that a person cannot make all of the
club events that we offer. But nobody can say that we don’t do
anything. We all have to make choices on the most efficient
use of our time. It’s different for each person. I get asked all
the time how do I find the time to fish as much as I do. That’s
easy, I make the time. After work I can get my lawn mowed
and still have time to get an hour or two on the water before
dark. My wife has a list of stuff for me to do around the house
on Saturday’s that is never ending. And I will get most of it
done as soon as I get back from fishing the morning bite. I plan
to be at all four club events in June. Why, because as Presi-
dent, you the club member expect that I am there. OK I have
to go get some cheese now after all this wine.
From the President
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Baked Stuffed Apples
12” Dutch oven
26 charcoal briquette
6 apples
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup slivered almonds
1?2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
2 1/4 cups water
6 ounces arrange juice concentrate, thawed
3 tablespoons honey
Wash and dry apples. Remove core, but do not cut all the
way through the bottom of the apple. In a small bowl, com-
bine raisins, almonds, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Divide fill-
ing among apples, using fingers and stuff filling into apples.
In a small bowl, combine water, orange juice concentrate,
and honey. Mix until well blended. Place apples in 12 inch
Dutch oven. Carefully pour liquid mixture over apples.
Bake with 9 briquettes on bottom and 26 on top for 50 mi-
nute, until apples are tender. Spoon excess sauce over ap-
ples before serving.
Serves 6.
What’s Cooking’
Dutch Oven Accessories
Cooking Table Heat Gloves
Briquette
Starter
Lid Lifter
Infrared Temp Sensor
On May 18th we held the second youth clinic and we can
say that it was a successful one. We had 7 youth take part in
the clinic where they learned to cast and tie flies before head-
ing out to do a little fishing of their own. Fish were caught and
a good time was had by all. Hopefully the lessons taught will
be the first of many for all participants. A special thanks to all
those who volunteered and donated flies, this event would not
have been possible without you.
Youth Clinic
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Flint Oak Resort Spencer Percival
On Saturday, May 18th, six members of the Flatland Fly
Fishers agreed to volunteer at an event hosted by Cabela’s at
the Flint Oak resort facility southwest of Fall River, Kansas.
The volunteers in attendance were Ryan Allred, Gale
Brown, Austin Hanna, Doug Meyer, Spencer Percival, and
Dan Stark. As volunteers, each club member received shirts
and ball caps from Cabela’s, a gift card from Cabela’s, and
another ball cap from the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance. The
group departed at 6:00 am from the west parking lot of the
Great Plains Nature Center and arrived at Flint Oak at 7:30.
We checked in at the volunteer station and were provided with
staff t-shirts and ball caps, then hustled over the hill to our
designated location complete with tent, tables and close to 2
dozen fully rigged fly rods.
We spent the morning assisting a seemingly never ending
stream of outdoor enthusiasts on the art of casting a fly rod.
Mother nature was kind enough to supply us with a full day of
wind that kept the volunteers and participants thoroughly
challenged throughout the event. It would be a conservative
estimate that we helped over 200 people with casting tech-
nique and getting the feel of fishing with a fly rod. For nearly
all of them, it would be their first time to try fooling a fish
with a fly. A few were quite successful.
Flint Oak has a beautiful facility. All of the volunteers
were struck by the quality of the water; very clear and quite
deep. The shorelines, for the most part were well maintained
and there was no litter to speak of. The lake had plenty of sub-
merged structure to hold fish and the participants seemed to
really enjoy decorating as much of it as possible with flies and
lures. In many places along the shoreline there were rock
walls built up to waist high to presumably slow erosion from
rain runoff as well as to keep guests from turning a fishing trip
into an unexpected swim.
Cabela’s did a fine job organizing the event and keeping
our station well stocked with iced down bottled water. Many
times during the day we were resupplied and the staff never
failed to ask if there was anything we required to carry on. If
the club has the opportunity to help with this event in the fu-
ture, it would be advisable to, at a minimum, double our vol-
unteer force as when one guest was finished, there always
seemed to be more waiting for instruction.
The afternoon wrapped up at 4:00 pm and we were given
leave to fish in the lake for the rest of the afternoon. We sam-
pled the local fish population and found healthy specimens of
largemouth bass, hybrid bluegill, white and black crappie, and
green sunfish.
All in all it was a great day. We introduced our sport and our
club to many people. Hopefully a few folks reading this are
new members of the club. If that’s the case, great! We wel-
come you and are happy to have you with us!
The young man in the photo is Dylan Marks. He is
11 years old and fresh from the 6th grade. You know
who the older guy is. (Spencer)
Photos by Danny Stark
5709 N. Sullivan Wichita, KS
67204
Flatland Flyfishers meet monthly at the
Great Plains Nature Center, located at
6232 E. 29th St. N, Wichita, KS
Flatland Fly Fishers
Flatland Fly Fishing Club Upcoming Activities
June 1, 2013 Casting Clinic
June 9, 2013 Walk With Wildlife
June 22, 2013 Blue Gill Fest
October 3-5, 2013 Federation Fly Fishing Fair
October 19, 2013 Fall Picnic/Banquet
Ark River Anglers Fly Tying Class
Intermediate Fly Tying Wednesday June 12 & 19 at 6 pm Introduction to Fly Tying Wednesday July 17 & 24 6 pm
Fly Tying Seminars Saturday’s at 10 am Please Call 316-682-8006 for additional dates and information
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June Meeting
The guest speaker for the June club meeting will be
Steve Dally. Steve is the owner of Dally's Fly Shop
located in Mountain Home, Arkansas.
Steve will talk about dry fly fishing on the White River
and fishing the White during the Southern Council Fly
Fishing Fair in October of 2013.